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swifty

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[SOLVED] Installing from AUR and ~/.cache directory

I installed polybar from AUR and have a ton of residual files in my ~/.cache directory. I'm assuming this is a temporary directory that was used during the install process.

1. Can I safely delete ~/.cache/polybar and still have a functioning polybar?

2. Are storing files here during install a unanimous dynamic when building packages from AUR and can be safely deleted? For example, I have a yay directory in there as well.

Last edited by swifty (2021-05-12 10:14:08)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing from AUR and ~/.cache directory

Are you sure ~/.cache/polybar was created by the packages installation rather than the first execution of polybar?
pacman runs as root when installing packages and does not ~/.cache.
See also XDG_Base_Directory.

swifty

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing from AUR and ~/.cache directory

I am not. I assumed when you build the package, it would unpack into the proper directories. Config files would unpack to /etc, binaries to /bin, and etc.

Is this not the case?

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing from AUR and ~/.cache directory

That is the case, but nothing under ~ is a "proper" directory for anything in any package.  In fact that's an understatement.  It's not just improper, it is most certainly not allowed or acceptable - and it is impossible (for a package installed via pacman).

It is possible for a poorly written PKGBUILD to put garbage under ~ during the build process, but this too is wrong / unacceptable.

However, this is all quite a bit of an X-Y question.  ~/.cache is used as a cache, hence the name, and is created / used by many bits of software at runtime.  It is technically "safe" to remove anything in ~/.cache as it is all - by definition - recreatable material.  But removing it can result in less efficient use of the relevant software as the whole purpose of caching is to avoid having to recreate, reindex, and redownload the same data every time the program runs a particular function.

You can certainly cleanup anything in ~/.cache that is from old software that you no longer use.  But otherwise, you'd be best leaving it be.

Last edited by Trilby (2021-05-11 14:17:20)

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing from AUR and ~/.cache directory

a ton of residual files

ls -R ~/.cache/polybar

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swifty

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing from AUR and ~/.cache directory

a ton of residual files

ls -R ~/.cache/polybar

http://ix.io/3mxo

It's > 6,000 lines, but the polybar files are at the end.

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing from AUR and ~/.cache directory

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,456

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing from AUR and ~/.cache directory

And as a bit of a revision, that content was created when you built the package.  Similar to how I said a poorly written PKGBUILD could store content under ~/.cache without your knowledge, so too could a poorly written AUR helper.

I'd say you can safely remove all of ~/.cache/yay/*, but I'd also say you can more than safely remove yay.

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swifty

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Registered: 2021-05-09

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Installing from AUR and ~/.cache directory

.cache/yay/polybar is not the same as .cache/polybar:

Oh wow, I am a doofus...

Thank you for your help.

And as a bit of a revision, that content was created when you built the package.  Similar to how I said a poorly written PKGBUILD could store content under ~/.cache without your knowledge, so too could a poorly written AUR helper.

I'd say you can safely remove all of ~/.cache/yay/*, but I'd also say you can more than safely remove yay.

I took a snapshot of my VM as a precautionary measure and removed ~/.cache/yay directory. Everything seems to be in working order. yay and polybar are both functioning.

Thank you to everyone. I'm struggling a bit to understand linux's file system structure and you've all been a huge help. I will mark this as solved.

Last edited by swifty (2021-05-12 10:14:27)

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,456

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing from AUR and ~/.cache directory

I'm struggling a bit to understand linux's file system structure and you've all been a huge help. I will mark this as solved.

It sounds like you are struggling also in understanding how AUR packages actually work - in which case you should not be using any AUR helper, certainly not one like yay that does so much without your knowledge and obscures what is actually happening.

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